On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 05:29:44PM +0100, Paul Allen wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 12:58, bkil <bkil.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 12:11 PM Martin Koppenhoefer > > > > > > almost everytime find someone who does not agree, and while I have read a > > lot of things from Paul that made sense in other contexts, in this > > particular discussion it appeared to me that he was sometimes giving > > interpretations of established tags that didn't find other supporting > > voices. > > > > So it appears to me, too. My mental taxonomy of what is and is not a cafe > clearly differs from that of other mappers in the UK. For me the seating > is important. It is usually the case that a place without seating will > normally sell fast food because people don't like standing in a queue for > 20 minutes. But I appear to be alone in thinking of McDonalds as a > cafe with a particular cuisine and limited menu (and bizarre lengths of > crispy potato instead of proper chips).
While I have not followed this discusson very closely, I thought that Paul's view in the UK context was reasonable. Cafe' is very definitely not restricted to places selling coffee. The distinction between fast-food and cafe' and even low end restaurants is a bit hazy. Fast-food is a fairly recent phase in British English, I think. Not precisely defined, but mainly for franchised chains. But I think duck- tagging applies in the UK: when I see one, I usually know what it is. ael _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
